The Prince of Wales

[Rhyfelwyr]

The name 'the Netherlands' was older than the Republic, dear Louis. They were called the 'Burgundian Netherlands' under Charles the Bold, the 'Habsburg Netherlands' under Charles V, and the 'Spanish Netherlands' under Philip II. So there.

And from 1815 to 1830 the Kingdom encompassed a territory much larger than that of the Republic, since it included Belgium (previously known as the 'Spanish Netherlands').

If I were you, I would reclaim some of those tuition fees...

Doesn't work for the bit you said about Charlemagne though... the closest thing to any sort of distint state in the area before the Frankish conquest was a collection of petty Frisian kingdoms... then from 843AD the Netherlands were just the fringe of the realm of Middle Francia, no more distinct in modern national terms than any of the rest of the kingdom which was made up of east France, western Germany, and northern Italy...